Course 10961C: Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use Windows PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify a...This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use Windows PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SQL Server, System Center, and more. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.Show More

Students who attend this training can meet the prerequisites by obtaining equivalent knowledge and skills through practical experience as a Windows system administrator. No prerequisite courses are required.

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Duration5 Days

Course Schedule

Course Content

Module 1: Getting started with Windows PowerShell
This module will introduce you to Windows PowerShell and provide an overview of the product’s functionality. The module shows you how to open and configure the shell for use and how to run commands within the shell. The module also introduces the built-in Help system in Windows PowerShell.

Lessons

Overview and background of Windows PowerShell

Understanding command syntax

Finding commands

Lab 1 : Configuring Windows PowerShell

Configuring the Windows PowerShell console

Configuring the Windows PowerShell ISE application

Lab 2 : Finding and running basic commands

Finding commands

Running commands

Using the About files

Module 2: Cmdlets for administration
This module introduces you to the cmdlets commonly used for administration. While you can search for cmdlets each time you need to accomplish a task, it is more efficient to have at least a basic understanding of the cmdlets available for system administration.

Lessons

Active Directory administration cmdlets

Network configuration cmdlets

Other server administration cmdlets

Lab 1: Windows Administration

Creating and managing Active Directory objects

Configuring network settings on Windows Server

Creating a web site

Module 3: Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline
This module introduces the pipeline feature of Windows PowerShell. Although the pipeline feature is included in several command-line shells such as the command prompt in the Windows operating system, the pipeline feature in Windows PowerShell provides more complex, more flexible, and more capable functionalities compared to other shells. This module provides you with the skills and knowledge that will help you use the shell more effectively and efficiently.

Lessons

Understanding the pipeline

Selecting, sorting, and measuring objects

Filtering objects out of the pipeline

Enumerating objects in the pipeline

Sending pipeline data as output

Lab 1: Using the pipeline

Selecting, sorting, and displaying data

Lab 2: Filtering objects

Filtering objects

Lab 3: Enumerating objects

Enumerating objects

Lab 4: Sending output to a file

Exporting user information to a file

Module 4: Understanding how the pipeline works
This module shows you how Windows PowerShell passes objects from one command to another in the pipeline. The shell provides two techniques that you can use. Knowing how these techniques work, and which one will be used in a given scenario, lets you construct more useful and complex command lines.

Lessons

Passing the pipeline data

Advanced considerations for pipeline data

Lab 1: Working with pipeline parameter binding

Predicting pipeline behaviour

Module 5: Using PSProviders and PSDrives
This module introduces the PSProviders and PSDrives adapters. A PSProvider is basically a Windows PowerShell adapter that makes some form of storage resemble a disk drive. A PSDrive is an actual connection to a form of storage. You can use these two adapters to work with various forms of storage by using the same commands and techniques that you use to manage the file system.

Lessons

Using PSProviders

Using PSDrives

Lab 1: Using PSProviders and PSDrives

Creating files and folders on a remote computer

Creating a registry key for your future scripts

Create a new Active Directory group

Module 6: Querying system information by using WMI and CIM
This module introduces you to two parallel technologies: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Common Information Model (CIM). Both these technologies provide local and remote access to a repository of management information including access to robust information available from the operating system, computer hardware, and installed software.

Lessons

Understanding WMI and CIM

Querying data by using WMI and CIM

Making changes with WMI/CIM

Lab 1: Working with WMI and CIM

Querying information by using WMI

Querying information by using CIM

Invoking methods

Invoke methods by using CIM and WMI.

Module 7: Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables
This module provides you the skills and knowledge required to use variables, arrays, and hash tables in Windows PowerShell.

Lessons

Using variables.

Manipulating variables.

Manipulating arrays and hash tables.

Lab 1: Working with variables

Working with variable types

Using arrays

Using hash tables

Module 8: Basic scripting
This module shows you how to package a Windows PowerShell command in a script. Scripts allow you to perform repetitive tasks and more complex tasks than cannot be accomplished in a single command.

Lessons

Introduction to scripting

Scripting constructs

Importing data from files

Lab 1: Basic scripting

Setting a script

Processing an array with a ForEach loop

Processing items by using If statements

Creating a random password

Creating users based on a CSV file

Module 9: Advanced scripting
This module introduces you to more advanced techniques that you can use in scripts. These techniques includes gathering user input, reading input from files, documenting scripts with help information and error handling.

Lessons

Accepting user input

Overview of script documentation

Troubleshooting and error handling

Functions and modules

Lab 1: Using Accepting data from users

Querying disk information from remote computers

Updating the script to use alternate credentials

Documenting a script

Lab 2:Implementing functions and modules

Creating a logging function

Adding error handling to a script

Converting a function to a module

Module 10: Administering Remote Computers
This module introduces you to the Windows PowerShell remoting technology that enables you to connect to one or more remote computers and instruct them to run commands on your behalf

Lessons

Using basic Windows PowerShell remoting

Using advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques

Troubleshooting and error handling

Using PSSessions

Lab 1: Using basic remoting

Enabling remoting on the local computer

Performing one-to-one remoting

Performing one-to-many remoting

Lab 2:Using PSSessions

Using implicit remoting

Managing multiple computers

Module 11: Using background jobs and scheduled jobs
This module provides information about the job features of Windows PowerShell. Jobs are an extension point in Windows PowerShell, and there are many different kinds of jobs. Each kind of job can work slightly differently, and has different capabilities.

Lessons

Using background jobs

Using scheduled jobs

Lab 1: Using background jobs and scheduled jobs

Starting and managing jobs

Creating a scheduled job

Module 12: Using advanced Windows PowerShell techniques
This module covers several advanced Windows PowerShell techniques and features. Many of these techniques and features extend functionality that you have learned about in previous modules. Some of these techniques are new and provide additional capabilities.

Lessons

Creating profile scripts

Using advanced techniques

Lab 1: Practicing advanced techniques

Creating a profile script

Verifying the validity of an IP address

Reporting disk information

Configuring NTFS permissions

Creating user accounts with passwords from a CSV file

Lab 2: Practicing script development (optional)

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